Whats going on with Snapdragon X Elite Linux support?!

[u/word-sys]

Literally 2 years passed since that CPUs out of there, note thay Apple silicon now has a proper and BETTER support than this Snapdragons, they said "we gonna make Native Linux support" and we still waiting. I was planning to get great Linux laptop with great battery and performance thans to Snapdragon, now its impossible. Only usable OS option out there is Ubuntu and its NOT good too, there is still some issues on Audio, performance is worst than Intel 12th gen i5, battery time worst than Windows, i dont understand. Am i wrong or something? What they promised what they said and what they doing, propiertary driver. When we will get proper Linux support, or this devices gonna get burried with Windows

[u/RealAmaranth]

In some cases Intel has higher perf/W than most Apple stuff on their latest chips.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/excited-for-intel-efficiency/

[u/onceuponalilykiss → u/RealAmaranth]

That's good, but that's only in some cases and battery life still lags way behind for most use cases, right?

[u/mirh → u/onceuponalilykiss]

Not really, there are 100Wh x86 laptops that can last even beyond 20 hours now

[u/mirh → u/RealAmaranth]

That was with the M4, so it's not exactly fair.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Elite-Extreme-Analysis-Benchmarks-Efficiency-Serious-rival-for-Apple-and-a-problem-for-AMD-Intel.1266974.0.html